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Gerald Green's jam vs. Cleveland

There isn't any semblance of a "game thread" for tonight's game, so I'm just going to leave this here:

I love how he fumbles the ball a little bit on the hopstep, gets his handle, and jumps WAY high to throw it down. And his Triple Threat mentality is just incredible. He took Casspi all the way to the rim, dunked on him, and Casspi was *****ing out Samardo Samuels after the play.

I bet that the Pacers FO is happy they got Green instead of Casspi now.

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I watched this video on Youtube and people were sure to point out that he traveled, he did, but it was still a nice dunk. Can't wait to see what he does in the regular season, it's gonna be a fun year for sure.

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What happened to the Paul George vs Gerald Green dunk-off? I knew Paul could soar but damn Gerald gets so high on his dunks and does them with force. Will be fun to watch both of the dunk in games should be good for a few highlights every night.

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What happened to the Paul George vs Gerald Green dunk-off? I knew Paul could soar but damn Gerald gets so high on his dunks and does them with force. Will be fun to watch both of the dunk in games should be good for a few highlights every night.

They were hyping a "who's the better dunker" thing on Facebook the night of the last presidential debate. Woudln't surprise me at all if they do it at the Fan Jam.

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lol you guys are right, he switched his pivot foot twice. I wasn't even paying attention to the first part. The rest of the move was special ( and legal) though. Not many people can do the hop step footwork properly, let alone rise up and slam off two feet like that.

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The travel is BARELY and is at the point of catch. Nearly all NBA players are allowed a small shuffle at the point of catch. Once he goes triple threat he's established his left foot as the pivot and to me the move is clean the rest of the way. This is a "legal" NBA move IMO. The typical NBA travel at Triple Threat is on a scissor step going into your dribble and Green doesn't do that.

The move itself, the hard show and rip through, paired with the physical clearing at the rim and the monster standing vert to dunk is pretty freaking amazing.

Green is sitting on the verge of a very special season if he keeps his head wrapped around his 6th man role and his long journey to this point. He has to avoid getting trapped again by his star hype. If he does that then he and this team can do some damage for several years in a row.

Green and Mahinmi are showing us moves that are dramatically better than anything we saw from any bench player the last few years. The athletic ability paired with the strength and force is really impressive, much more than most of us had in mind when the deals originally went down.

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The travel is BARELY and is at the point of catch. Nearly all NBA players are allowed a small shuffle at the point of catch. Once he goes triple threat he's established his left foot as the pivot and to me the move is clean the rest of the way.

No. Watch after he faces up. It's shuffle city. Now, don't get me wrong. If I was at the game and they called a travel I would complain as bad as the next guy. But there's no denying he walked on that.

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It's amazing the bounce he has. There are maybe a handful of guys who can, while defended, jump flat footed and throw it down that hard. Just an incredibly difficult play. Hard to imagine why he never got it going in the first place as an NBA player. His athleticism is equal to that of VC's back in the day. (without the power)

We all talk about PG's leaping ability but he can't do that.

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Yup, I was only watching half the move. Glad that was pointed out because I missed part of the play. He definitely traveled, but it wasn't nearly as obvious as when LeBron takes his final dribble 20 feet from the basket and takes 3 steps before a dunk. I can't stand it when they let players do that